Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American film and stage actress. She is the recipient of many accolades including an Academy Award and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
She began her acting career appearing in television programs throughout the 1980s. In 1986, she appeared in her first film role, with her breakthrough coming in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Miller's Crossing.
Her next notable film credits include The First Wives Club (1996), Flubber (1997), and Space Cowboys (2000). She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000). She had a supporting role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in the drama film Mystic River (2003).
She appeared in several 2007 films, including Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Frank Darabont's The Mist, based on the novella by Stephen King. Also in 2007, she shared top billing with Kevin Bacon in Rails & Ties, the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood. Harden played a woman who has a mastectomy in Home (2008). (Her character in Rails & Ties also had a mastectomy.) One scene required her to bare her breasts, with the missing breast removed using computer-generated imagery. In Home, her co-stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel.
In 2009, she had quite a busy year. She appeared as a regular on the FX series Damages as a shrewd corporate attorney opposite Glenn Close and William Hurt. She co-starred in the films Whip It, and The Maiden Heist. She returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, co-starring with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels. All three actors were nominated for a Tony Award; Harden won Best Actress in a Play. She received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Lewis in the crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and earned a second Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Janina Krzyżanowska in the television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009).
She reunited with her former Broadway co-star Jeff Daniels as a new cast member on HBO's series The Newsroom in 2013. In 2015, she had a starring role in the medical drama Code Black. Her other notable television credits include ABC's How to Get Away with Murder and the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show.
She played Christian Grey's mother, Grace Trevelyan Grey, in the Fifty Shades film series from 2015 to 2018. She stars in the 2022 CBS drama So Help Me Todd.
as Marcia
as Gloria
as Margaret Vandenburg(7 eps)
as Dr. Partovi
as Elizabeth Gable(5 eps)
as Morwen
as Self (voice)
as Salenus (voice)
as Mayor Christie Holman(7 eps)
as Ruby Knox
as Diane
as Dr. Partovi
as Margaret(31 eps)
as Countess Sylvia de Grassi
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Claire Gibson
as Claire Lewis(6 eps)
as Sally Stageplay (voice)(2 eps)
as Self - Narrator(1 ep)
as Principal Shelly
as Pamela
as Mathilde Geffard(8 eps)
as Maggie Brener(10 eps)
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Self(2 eps)
as Lieutenant Lewis
as Betty Ann Miller(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Camile Stoller
as USA Ambassadør(2 eps)
as Alice Mendez(1 ep)
as Pastor Joyce Speegle (voice)
as Grace Grey
as Grace Trevelyan Grey
as Katherine Dunn
as Dr. Leanne Rorish(47 eps)
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Jane Taylor
as Narrator (voice)
as President of the FAFAFA
as Judy
as Dr. Grey
as Elizabeth
as Hannah Keating(3 eps)
as Denise (voice)(1 ep)
as Denise / McCaitlyn (voice)(1 ep)
as Mrs. Baker
as Lydia
as Doris Nelson
as Dr. Diane Buckley(22 eps)
as Shelley
as Madelyn
as Rebecca Halliday(10 eps)
as Vanessa Carter(1 ep)
as Marjorie Dunfour
as Barbara Sabich
as Principal Carol Dearden
as Sheila Temple(1 ep)
as Edda Mellas
as Becky Binion
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Dr. Elizabeth Blair(3 eps)
as Rose Barlow
as Inga
as Janina Krzyżanowska
as Brooke Cavendar
as Maryanne Kinkade
as Zoe Cafritz
as Mrs. Carmody
as Self
as Billie McCandless
as Megan Stark
as Claire Maddox(13 eps)
as Diane Powell
as Mary Marino
as Melora
as Edith Irving
as Vicki Miller
as First Lady
as Mrs. Martha Merriman
as Janet Huttenson
as Voice of Willa Cather
as Self - Presenter
as Liz Whitewood
as Missy Goldberg
as Angela Brown
as Grace Sutherland
as Trish Vogul
as Nancy Abbey
as Celeste Boyle
as Nan
as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
as Jenny Moran
as Andrea Haskell(22 eps)
as Susan Silverman
as Frankie
as Susan Silverman
as Lee Krasner
as Sara Holland
as Sharon
as Dana Lewis(4 eps)
as Susan Silverman
as Michelle Tippet
as Allison
as Annie Pines
as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
as Self(7 eps)
as Libby
as Arabella
as Dr. Leslie Rosen
as Shelby Goddard
as Miss Cheevus
as Maggie Sinclair
as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
as Cynthia
as Barbara Tomilson(1 ep)
as Marie(1 ep)
as Joan Garbarek(1 ep)
as Norma
as Ava Gardner(2 eps)
as Lane
as Joy Husband
as Lacy
as Adina Rowan
as Verna
as Angelina
as Lila(1 ep)
as Marcia Connelly
as Self(1 ep)
as Jennie
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self(4 eps)
as Vicki Miller(1 ep)
